Just wanted to say a THANK YOU,you saved me from having to buy another
windows for a computer I am giving away. I had contacted dell, microsoft and
you rescued me!!!!!




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On Oct 2, 5:56 am, gchelp wrote:
I have a legitproductkeythat I got when I bought my computer many many
years ago. I decided to wipe my hard drive and format it again and then
reloadWindows98. When it asked me for theWindowsProductKeyI entered it
exactly as it is on my Certificate of Authenticity and I do not have enough
keystrokes for it to take the number? Does anyone have any knowledge on who
I can contact at Microsoft to find out what to do?

Had the same problem. Called Microsoft, they gave me a *generic* key
that they
said would work with *all* CDs, and said, "feel free to pass this on".
I guess since they don't support it anymore, there's no reason to keep
it a
secret anymore. Anyway, the generic key is:
VP9VV-VJW7Q-MHY6W-JK47R-M2KGJ
Be sure you look closely at the letters. On my LCD monitor, it is
difficult
to see the difference between the single letter W and VV, which is two
letters "V".
In the first block, VP9 is followed by two V's. The rest are W's.